★empreintes DIGITALes
Impressions
Six acousmatic works by Julien Guillamat from 2010 to 2026, from Birmingham pieces built on the dismantling of the BEAST loudspeaker system to recent soundscapes of the Aure Valley in the Hautes-Pyrénées, recorded in its ski resorts and mountain villages. CD-R.
Sillages
Roxanne Turcotte’s “sonic archeology”: electroacoustic works mixing everyday objects, field recordings from Tokyo, the Seychelles and New Zealand, and sounds of Jean-François Laporte’s invented instruments, dedicated to her late colleagues and mentors. CD-R.
Malgré Tout
Four works by Monique Jean from 2015 to 2024, three built on MissTake, her no-input four-track tape recorder with effects pedals, including Volt_#1 and Volt_#3, plus Tumultes, inspired by novels by Adania Shibli and Antoine Wauters. CD-R.
Cartografía Interior
Debut solo album by Montréal sound artist Diego Bermudez Chamberland: a 44-minute acousmatic work in three movements (2020-23, revised 2025) freely inspired by the Norse cosmos of Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, moving from the scale of Yggdrasil to the microscopic. CD-R.
Du Noir Tout Autour
Armando Balice’s triptych of inner gardens from 2018 to 2021, three acousmatic pieces in eight movements each built from ravens, forest recordings, analogue synthesizers and the cello of Lola Malique, starting with an Ina-GRM commission inspired by Japanese gardens. CD-R.
Coups de Foudre
Three multichannel works by Stéphane Roy from 2022 to 2024: a war piece after poems by Paul-Marie Lapointe, a sound bestiary for Jean-François Laporte’s Babel table, and nine acousmatic miniatures on experiential time. CD-R.
Exomusique
Seven multichannel works by Åke Parmerud from 2019 to 2025 that push guitar, piano, percussion and string quartet into music no player could perform, from the alien metal band of Heavy Metal to a Latin groove for Javier Álvarez.
Vox Alia
Annette Vande Gorne’s complete Vox Alia cycle (1992-2024), five multichannel works on the voice without words, from Maria Callas and Pierre Schaeffer in Affetti to sacred chant, a Werner Lambersy poem, crowds and animal calls. CD-R.
Soulignement_
Adrian Moore’s works from 2019 to 2024: five wt_ pieces each built from one source (a ceramic pot, a bird whistle, a wine glass, metal sheets, voices) with the same Pure Data toolkit, plus two Sheffield-area site pieces on industrial noise and change. CD-R.
Interruptions
Five stereo acousmatic works by Manuella Blackburn from 2018 to 2023, made from household sounds, plastic waste and microplastics, a rotary landline and the factory samples and fan noise of a Fairlight CMI. CD-R.
L’Ombre du Pont
Eleven fixed-media works by Elsa Justel from 1995 to 2021, several of them homages built from the sounds of Ferrari, Parmegiani, Bayle, Dhomont, Ferreyra and Vande Gorne, alongside a COVID divertimento and a dialogue with pianist Ana Foutel. CD-R.
Promenades
Seven works by Gilles Gobeil from 1990 to 2020 on the theme of the stroll, from Chris Marker's La Jetée and Kubrick's 2001 with Yves Charuest's saxophone to Folkmar Hein's Berlin forest walks and the trio Déviation(s). CD-R.
Écraser l’Autre
Six 7.1-channel acousmatic pieces made by Dominique Bassal between 2018 and 2021, each tied to a historical episode of persecution, from Saint Bartholomew's Day to Deir Yassin, and built with production techniques borrowed from commercial music. CD-R.
Radiolaria
An eight-part cycle by Ana Dall’Ara-Majek built entirely from Buchla 200 improvisations recorded at EMS Stockholm in 2022, each piece giving a sound colour to one species of plankton, from radiolarian skeletons to diatom blooms seen from space. CD-R.
Contemplations
Emma Margetson's Contemplations: nine acousmatic works from 2014 to 2022 on the passing of time, from a ticking metronome and a suspended cymbal to a bicycle in Hamburg’s Elbe tunnel and chalk on paper after a Wyndham Lewis sketch. CD-R.
Lointain Intérieur
Four acousmatic works by the Belgian composer Ingrid Drese from 2013 to 2020, after Henri Michaux, Rilke and Jung, including Treize virgule huit, a history of the universe made with the astrophysicist Marc Moniez for Ina-GRM. CD-R.
Histoires de Soldats
Two documentary works by John Young built on soldiers' voices: a First World War veteran recalling the angel at Mons at 101, and the composer's father, a New Zealand gunner, on his war in Italy, where he met Young's mother. CD-R.
Espaces Lointains
Six works by John Young from 2017 to 2023, from New York subway preachers and Oberlin crickets to Mahler’s composing hut and a setting of Simon Perril’s poem after Lévi-Strauss, including the Klang ! and Akousmatique prize winners. CD-R.
IV
Christian Bouchard’s fourth album, five works from 2013 to 2022 that alternate abstract pieces with Montréal soundscapes: eight-track recordings from his car with police radio, a collective 15-minute recording, Canadian bird songs and a bank of oscillators.
Limaçon
Five works by Léa Boudreau from 2017 to 2022: a sonic portrait of Alzheimer's, a bestiary of species adapted to life after the Anthropocene, and four machines to save the world imagined by Montréal schoolchildren.